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M.T.REEVES. STRAW STAGKING MACHINE.

No. 517,530. Patented Apr. 3, 18-94.

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T. REEVES. STRAW-STAGKING MACHINE.

No. 517,530. Patented Apr. 3; 1894.

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MARSHAL T. REEVES, E

PATENT OFFICE.

COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO REEVES.&

00., OF SAME PLACE.

STRAW-STACKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,530, dated April 3, 1894. Application filed July 31,1893. Serial in. 481.933. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHAL T. REEVES, a citizen of the United States, residing at O0- lumbus, in the county of Bartholomew and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Straw-Stacking Machine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in straw-stacking machines.

B, in the usual well known manner.

The object of my improvement is, to employ, in connection with the ordinary well known endless-belt straw-carrier of a stacking-machine, an air-blast for the purpose of assisting in distributing the straw as it is delivered by the carrier to the stack.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a straw-stacking machine, of well known form, having my improvement. Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the same.

In the drawings, A, indicates the strawchute which is traversed by the endless-belt, Said belt is driven by means of the driving-shaft, O, sprocket-wheel, D,chain-belt, E, and sprocketwhee], F. For the purpose of assisting in distributing the straw as it falls from the outer end of the straw-chute, I mount, beneath the chute, the blast-fan, G, from which the airtube, H, extends to the outer end of the chute. The discharging end of said tube is preferably provided with a widened mouth, I. Said blast-fan is driven by means of a train of belts and pulleys which connect it with the driving shaft of the machine. The form of such train which I have illustrated, consists of a counter-shaft, J, mounted in a pair of jointed hangers, K, and, L, which are pivoted respectively on the fan-shaft, M, and the driv- Said counter-shaft carries puling-shaft, (J.

whence the straw, falling across the mouth of the air-tube H, is projected by the blast therefrom to a considerable distance from the chute.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a straw-stacking machine, the combination with the straw-chute, of an endlessbelt carrier arranged to traverse the strawchute, whereby the straw is carried along the chute, and means for forming an air-blast adjacent to the discharging end of the strawchute, whereby the straw is projected there from after leaving the carrier-belt, substantially as set forth.

2. In a straw-stacking machine, the combination of the straw-chute, the endless-belt carrier arranged to traverse said chute, the blast-fan and the discharge-tube therefrom suspended from said chute, the jointed hangers carrying at their joint a counter shaft and pivoted respectively to a shaft of the stacking-machine and to the shaft of the blast-fan, and a train of pulleys and belts connecting said shafts of the machine and blast-fan, all combined and arranged to co-operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MARSHAL T. REEVES.

Witnesses:

O. S. WAY, WM. J ETT. 

